Tikkun Olam

I was still shaking from the horrific terrorist attack on the Israeli tourists in Bulgaria, murdered by a suicide bomber who set off bombs on the buses --when I awakened this morning to the double whammy of the news of the Century 16 theatre murders in Aurora, in which 71 people were shot, twelve of them fatally, in a theatre which my D. H. and I have been to many times. I don't know where to begin, my feelings are all jumbled up and raging, but I will try.  I think Glenn Beck expressed it best, when he made this statement, in his morning show  video , " Let me be the first to say there’s a hole in the soul of America. What is it we’re filling that hole with? ” He nailed it.  There is a hole in America, and we are filling that hole with promoting, for all to see, horrible things that we fear--displaying disgusting human behavior. We have, for decades, been in a culture where violence, hatred, criminal activities and psychopathic behavior are big box...

As we know--or more correctly, as some of us know and the rest of us should know--it is politically incorrect to say anything positive about Israel or defend Israel in almost anything it does, such as it's holding onto those "disputed territories" won fair and square in a defensive war, or keeping up a naval blockade against anyone who might try shipping weapons and materials to terrorists bent on Israel's destruction, or its treatment of the Arabs (so-called "Palestinians") who are either Israeli citizens, or in the aforementioned Judea and Samaria, treatment which is called by many who have no concept of the meaning of the word, "apartheid." So it is really refreshing (and a bit shocking--hard for me to believe he actually said this in public) to hear Glenn Beck fully support Israel, and not mince words at it, either: I want to leave you with his strong words this erev Shabbat.  Food for thought (enjoy your Shabbat se'udah ). Shabbat ...

Haven't blogged in two weeks, so it's time.  Here, Glenn Beck states outright what I have been trying to beat you guys over the head with for years.  I am losing my patience, and my politeness.  For all his foibles, Beck has the courage (or the chutzpah) to say it loud and clear (yes, I know it's an adverb, but "loudly and clearly" just doesn't cut it).  All reasonable, intelligent, informed people should be standing with Israel against the radical Islamists and Islam.